Rights committee warns of equalizing Palestinian refugees with Jewish colonizers

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A Palestinian committee specialized in Palestinian refugees' rights denounced "I am a Jewish refugee" campaign, which aims to give Jewish colonizers the same rights which Palestinian refugees may get in any future resolution.

The Palestinian Refugee Rights Committee confirmed in a press statement on Sunday that "the Jews who willingly left their places of residence in other countries and headed to Palestine within the colonial project designed to control Palestine and expel its people, cannot be considered equal to victims of Zionist heinous crimes."

It noted that the international community, represented in the General Assembly of the United Nations, did not declare cases of Jewish refugees, on the contrary, it issued, in the light of Palestinian Nakba in 1948, Resolution 194, paragraph (11) of which explicitly requires the return of Palestinian refugees to their hometowns from which they have been displaced.

The Committee emphasized on Palestinians determination to extract their rights to dignified return, to establish their Palestinian state and to confront "all Zionist crimes and all racist decisions issued by the Zionist gangs".

The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahranot revealed that the initiator of this campaign is the Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, who said that the campaign aims to promote recognition and compensation for the refugees and their families.

Aylon also claimed that “around 850,000 Arab Jews were expelled or left their homes penniless and arrived in Israel as refugees” and that “the story of their expulsion has never won recognition by the international community or any of the Israeli governments."

The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the Jewish refugees coming from the Arab states to upload videos telling the stories of their deportation and expulsion from those countries just because they are Jews.

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